Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
Job 15:28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →